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Japanese funeral customs: outside the dead man's house.

image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London | CC BY 4.0

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Date

1880

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Wellcome Library

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https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gs3ef8mx

Description

Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
Left, two Buddhist monks stand in conversation; right, four poorly dressed people stand in a group, while centre, a fifth person, leaning on a staff, approaches them; centre right, on a low table stands a deep bowl containing rice (?) with chopsticks standing vertically; above, inside the house , a similar bowl is visible and the occupants of the house can be seen on the verandah; the partially closed door of the house is a sign bearing the word 'kitu' (?), meaning 'dead' (?)

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CC BY 4.0

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image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London

Location

Japan

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Buildings
Interiors
People

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People & Society

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